λ Latitudinarians

To celebrate Labor Day, we traveled nearly as far East as you can go in the USA, all the way to the coast of Maine: Isle au Haut in Acadia National Park.

Our final day of the bike trip took us across two states, and ended with mild disappointment.

Our third day of bikepacking took us from Stowe to Montpelier -- not far, as the crow flies, but with many lovely dirt road diversions and several good eateries along the way.

We awoke to a glittering kaleidoscope of dew, spiderwebs, and the intermittent crow of a rooster that simply did not understand the concept no time constraint of 'sunrise'.

This year, we decided to move our typical fall foliage bike tour up to late summer, to better enjoy some perfect weather, swimming holes, and sun.

Do you use an app other than Apple Music to listen to music on your Mac?

Ever installed an app on your Mac and been greeted with this lovely dialog?

I recently read Klara and the Sun, my third Ishiguro novel.

Do you use a Macbook or an Apple Keyboard with backlighting?

Not another AI blog post!

Occasionally I revisit fantasy novels that I read, or that I wish I'd read, in my childhood: A Wrinkle in Time, A Wizard of Earthsea, The Dragonriders of Pern, The Phantom Tollbooth.

2025: what a year!

I've been using a Raspberry Pi 5 as a home server for years now.

The Diamond Age: Or, a The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer has gotten a lot of attention lately in the tech community.

We are idiots.

I first read Cryptonomicon back in college.

"Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said.

I recently re-read one of my favorite classic sci-fi tales, Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Whenever you download a file in macOS, your computer automatically sets a special bit called the quarantine bit.

There's been a lot of talk lately about Meta's antitrust trial.

I've been using a Crossland CC1 just about daily as my home espresso machine since 2020.

This weekend, we biked about 30 miles around Brooklyn, Queens, and (technically) Manhattan in honor of my 30th birthday.

This guide explains how to permanently install the Pebble app on a new iPhone, assuming you already downloaded the Pebble app from your Apple ID/Account at some point in the past.

The Power Broker is probably one of the largest books I have ever read.

In 2025, Google killed the Pixel 4a. 1.5 years after the last security update for the Pixel 4a and its apparent end of software support and life, Google pushed an update that breaks battery percentage reporting, limits charging speed to 1A (!!!)

All bicyclists ride bikes.

For this year's bike tour, Meg and I rode our ATBs from Littleton, New Hampshire, in a loop around Vermont, and back to New Hampshire.

For this year's bike tour, Meg and I rode our ATBs from Littleton, New Hampshire, in a loop around Vermont, and back to New Hampshire.

For this year's bike tour, Meg and I rode our ATBs from Littleton, New Hampshire, in a loop around Vermont, and back to New Hampshire.

For this year's bike tour, Meg and I rode our ATBs from Littleton, New Hampshire, in a loop around Vermont, and back to New Hampshire.

For this year's bike tour, Meg and I rode our ATBs from Littleton, New Hampshire, in a loop around Vermont, and back to New Hampshire.

For this year's bike tour, Meg and I rode our ATBs from Littleton, New Hampshire, in a loop around Vermont, and back to New Hampshire.

For this year's bike tour, Meg and I rode our ATBs from Littleton, New Hampshire, in a loop around Vermont, and back to New Hampshire.

For this year's bike tour, Meg and I rode our ATBs from Littleton, New Hampshire, in a loop around Vermont, and back to New Hampshire.

For this year's bike tour, Meg and I rode our ATBs from Littleton, New Hampshire, in a loop around Vermont, and back to New Hampshire.

I like riding bicycles.

A month on our bicycles, unsupported, spanning the entire isle of Great Britain.

I just finished a very, very, very long read of Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series.

I recently finished reading The Lost Cause, by Cory Doctorow, which asks (and answers) the question: Do some people seriously want to watch the world burn?.

A month on our bicycles, unsupported, spanning the entire isle of Great Britain.

A month on our bicycles, unsupported, spanning the entire isle of Great Britain.

A month on our bicycles, unsupported, spanning the entire isle of Great Britain.

A month on our bicycles, unsupported, spanning the entire isle of Great Britain.

A month on our bicycles, unsupported, spanning the entire isle of Great Britain.

A month on our bicycles, unsupported, spanning the entire isle of Great Britain.

A month on our bicycles, unsupported, spanning the entire isle of Great Britain.

Meg's mom visited us for Mother's Day weekend to continue the tradition of the Meg-Lyneé National Golf Championship.

Our latest adventure took us across half of the state of Vermont: from St.

A year ago today, we moved to Littleton, New Hampshire!

What is the Fifth Season?